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Ronald Reagan, the Diversity President
Republicans should honor his vision of a welcoming nation.
He wasn’t afraid of foreigners.
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Many Republicans are worried about America’s changing demographics. But it was a Republican president -- Ronald Reagan -- who set the country on its irrevocable course toward greater diversity. And they should honor Reagan’s vision.
The U.S. is inexorably becoming a more heterogeneous country. Non-Hispanic whites comprise about three fifths of the population, down from almost nine tenths in 1940.